Newman told the judge on Friday that she didn't hurt anyone and wanted to be freed pending a Sept. 9 preliminary hearing with co-defendant David Allen Brutsche.

The judge previously set bail at $600,000 for Brutsche , 42, an ex-felon, child sex offender from California who declared in court that he was a sovereign citizen and the judge had no authority to keep him in jail.

Police characterize Newman as an acquaintance and roommate of Brutsche who shared his ideology.

Police say an undercover officer spent four months with Brutsche and Newman, collecting evidence of what authorities called a domestic terror operation illustrating the potential for violence from a group that renounces government.

The couple was arrested Aug. 20 at a Las Vegas apartment.

The Southern Poverty Law Center in Montgomery, Ala., which tracks hate groups and extremists, estimates there are 300,000 adherents to the philosophy around the country.

Not all members are considered violent, but the center links seven killings of law enforcement officers around the country since 2003 to sovereign citizen groups.

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Police allege Brutsche and Newman held training sessions about sovereign citizen philosophy, shopped for guns and rigged a vacant house to serve as a "jail" where captives could be bound to wooden beams during interrogation.

A police report alleges that Brutsche and Newman recorded and planned to post videos about their actions, and Brutsche expected to draw a large following because of the publicity of a police officer abduction, "trial" and execution.